Author: Eliot Van Buskirk

Spotify Insights is a new resource that provides timely, data-driven articles about how people experience music to journalists, music enthusiasts, students, and other curious parties. As the world’s favorite on-demand music service, Spotify, along with subsidiary The Echo Nest, encompasses a universe of data about every recorded song on the planet, what happens when one of them […]

We counted 111,690 Spotify playlists earlier this month with the words “road trip” or “roadtrip” in their titles — oodles of great music that Spotify users have chosen with long-distance driving specifically in mind. To channel that sea of music into four playlists you can listen to, we first identified the 500 most popular songs […]

For the past two months, we’ve hosted Spotify’s very first media artist in residence, interactive artist Kyle McDonald, who has built something truly inspiring. His creation, Serendipity, is an animated world map that shows when two people listen to the same song at the same time. Yes, it’s a mesmerizing piece of art. It’s also […]

Music lovers, we know you often want to wear your favorite artist on your sleeve, and as of today, you can. Artists can now sell everything from band clothing to vinyl on Spotify, directly to their fans, thanks to our new partnership with BandPage. Buying directly from artists on Spotify is another great way to support […]

Yesterday, Germany stunned World Cup host Brazil with a 7-1 victory, breaking records and Brazilian hearts. But for fans of the German side, which will now advance to the World Cup final, the result was cause for major celebration. And celebrate they did. As we did for two earlier matches, we looked at how many […]

Nearly half of the world’s population watched at least a minute of the last World Cup, according to FIFA (.pdf). At this year’s Brazilian extravaganza, we expect even more people to tune in, given that viewership increased 8 percent last time around. But you don’t need to know that to understand the global impact of […]

Developers, start your engines. We’ve launched a new version of the Spotify Web API that lets you put everything from album art to music previews into third-party web apps, with a brand new ability to create real Spotify playlists for your users. Developers, marketers, ad agencies, music hacking gurus, product managers, design firms, and anyone else […]